Mission

Our Purpose

Auril is a pioneering biotech company founded in 2025 by Renaud Renault, named after the goddess of winter. Our mission is to revolutionize biosensing through cold tolerance and cryo-preservation technology, enabling the deployment of living matter-based sensors outside traditional laboratory environments.

We specialize in cell-based biosensing, combining our team's biocomputing expertise to develop specialized hardware that bridges the gap between biological sensing and everyday technology. Our collection of biosensing, biocomputing, and auxiliary modules creates a new paradigm for analytical devices.

Technology

Cell-Based Biosensing

Biosensing translates biological recognition events into usable signals for faster, point-of-care analysis. Auril's approach uses mammalian cells that express complex olfactory receptors, serving both as biological factories and signal transducers.

Our breakthrough innovation lies in cold tolerance technology. Inspired by hibernating mammals, we've developed cell lines that maintain functionality at temperatures as low as 10°C for extended periods. This eliminates the energy-intensive requirements of traditional cell-based systems while dramatically extending sensor shelf life.

Unlike previous attempts limited to 5-day cell longevity, our hibernator-derived cells show no significant degradation even after 9 days, with some responses becoming stronger over time.

Product

Biochips & Modular Hardware

Our biochips are precision-engineered culture vessels designed as stacks of Cyclo-Olefin Copolymer (COC) layers. Using injection molding for scalability and ultrasonic welding for assembly, we create self-aligning, multi-layer chips with embedded optical elements for enhanced signal acquisition.

Our modular hardware system features stacked autonomous modules controlled by a mother module through a proprietary serial protocol. Current modules include temperature control, GPS, VOC sensing, and airflow control—all with USB serial interfaces for standalone operation.

Each biochip interfaces seamlessly with microfluidic control, signal acquisition, and atmospheric control modules, creating a complete analytical platform for cell-based biosensing applications.

Applications

VOC Detection & Identification

Traditional VOC detection methods measure global properties like mass and charge, often yielding ambiguous results. Our cell-based approach leverages the unique 3D configuration of each molecule, using complementary receptors built with atomic accuracy.

With thousands of natural receptors and virtually infinite possibilities through engineering, our technology offers universal sensing capabilities. Each receptor can detect specific molecules or families of related compounds, providing unambiguous identification impossible with conventional methods.

Our system is particularly valuable for detecting explosives, environmental contaminants, and other complex chemical signatures where traditional methods fall short due to molecular similarity or ambiguous structural features.

Services

Data Standardization & Normalization

We provide live adaptive normalization algorithms that handle data from dozens of different sensors in real-time. Unlike static methods, our approach adapts to unknown future values, facilitating immediate classification and comparison of sensory data.

Our standardization services measure environmental parameters including temperature, pressure, humidity, and CO2 levels alongside olfactory data. This comprehensive approach ensures meaningful comparison of data collected at different times and under varying conditions.

These services are essential for deploying cell-based biosensing at scale, enabling reliable, reproducible results that meet the rigorous demands of industrial and scientific applications.